Abstract: The formation of cone defects is a side effect of the shallow trench isolation (STI) etching process, caused by the redeposition of residue from silicon nitride, silicon dioxide, or ...

Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan ...

Abstract: The coring method (CM) and the electrical-device-based method are usually applied to measure the density of the asphalt pavement. The CM is an accurate but inefficient method. A pavement ...

Mitchell is a professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. During the recent White ...

A Senate vote to reopen the government failed on Wednesday, hours after many federal agencies ceased operations and a stand off over government funding on Capitol Hill showed little movement towards a ...

Senate Democrats voted Wednesday to block a House-passed stopgap funding bill that would reopen the federal government until Nov. 21, but several Democrats broke with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck ...

The federal government partially shut down at midnight Wednesday, hours after all but three Senate Democrats voted down a short-term funding bill. The measure fell five votes short of passing. The ...

The federal government has officially shut down after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the lights on – and no one inside the Capitol knows what will happen next. A ...

Proponents suggest supervisors could gain political capital by passing the ordinance instead of sending it to voters. If the measure passes, the county's registrar of voters anticipates legal ...